January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
.... Via the UN General Assembly resolution on ‘The Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space’ (PAROS) that has been a regular feature... space by itself does not guarantee the prevention of an arms race in outer space…[and that consequently] there is a...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
...a mock asteroid boulder in its clutches at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The robotic portion of ARM is targeted for launch in 2021. Located in Goddard’s Robotic Operations Center, the mockup helps engineers understand the...
July 2018
A moment in space and time
... a satellite, a Constitution, a flag, an anthem, coat of arms and our own calendar. “A Parliament has been elected, as well ... eternal life to homo sapiens as a species. Not by an arms race but by endless expansion of humankind into the Universe, where...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
...earliest uses of remote sensing as a verification mechanism for arms control agreements between the United states and the USSR. ... these technologies as verification mechanisms outside the context of arms control. As a result, there is little law governing ...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
... citizen and chief executive officer of Asgardia AG, the Vienna-based legal entity that is the nation’s operational arm. “Asgardia could be viewed as a vehicle for the promotion of and investment in business activities related to developing space and...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
.... LISA Pathfinder... essentially shrank the million-km scale arm-lengths of a LISA-like observatory down to 38...frequency gravitational wave detection. It essentially shrank the million-km scale arm-lengths of a LISA-like observatory down to 38cm. It...
